World Humanitarian Day - 2...
World Humanitarian Day
On this, the inaugural “World Humanitarian Day”, Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) honors the memory of humanitarian workers throughout the world who have laid down their lives in selfless service to those affected by war or natural disaster. Humanitarian workers in Sri Lanka, and TRO staff in particular, have been the frequent target of violence. Sri Lanka continues...
Breakfast at night in the ...
Any health system would have difficulties responding to the needs of over 260,000 people who recently came out of a war zone. Facilities in the Sri Lankan camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) are overstretched. People sometimes wait days before they can see a doctor for treatment. At night, non-medical people decide who gets referred to a hospital and who doesn’t. Although the war has ended,...
Behind the Barbed Wire: Ci...
by Nimmi Gowrinathan
When the cameras came, everyone came to the edges of the IDP camp. One hand on the hot metal of a barbed wire fence, the emptiness in their eyes was captured in images flashed around the world as the military campaign of the Government of Sri Lanka came to end.
Sri Lanka army kills 1257 ...
A massive artillery barrage by the Sri Lankan army last night killed at least 1257 civilians and left another 3814 wounded in the Save Zone declared by Government of Srilanka. A doctor working in the Save Zone make shift hospital described the assault as the bloodiest he had seen in the government’s offensive against the Tamils.
Dr V Shanmugarajah said he feared many more may have been killed...
The UN Secretary-General m...
Ban Ki Moon the Secretary-General of the United Nations, visited Sri Lanka last week. He knew from his officials that at least 20,000 civilians had been killed by Sri Lankan troops in the offensive against the Tamil Tigers. Mr Ban never mentioned this figure to his Sri Lankan interlocutors. He saw, while travelling by air over a supposed “no-fire” zone, the evidence of a massacre of thousands of...
Sri Lanka: Repeated Shelli...
The Sri Lankan armed forces have repeatedly struck hospitals in the northern Vanni region in indiscriminate artillery and aerial attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Commanders responsible for ordering or conducting such attacks may be prosecuted for war crimes.
Patients, medical staff, aid workers, and other witnesses have provided Human Rights Watch with information about at least 30 attacks on...
Hospital ‘ hit by Sr...
The Sri Lankan army has killed 91 people at a makeshift hospital inside a civilian safe zone in the last two days, two doctors have told the BBC. The doctors said bombardments from the army had killed 64 people on Saturday, including patients, their relatives and bystanders in Mullivaikal.
About 87 people were injured. Another 27 people reportedly died on Friday. The army has denied bombing the hospital,...
Heavy Artillery attack on ...
A government health official said at least 64 patients and bystanders were killed in two artillery attacks that hit the hospital Saturday. Another 87 people were wounded, said the official, who declined to be identified by name because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The artillery attacks came amid growing international concerns over the fate of the estimated 50,000 civilians trapped in...
Report from the so called ...
The current situation in the so called ‘safe zone’/’no fire zone’ is dire. A humanitarian catastrophe of unprecedented proportions is taking place and the international community, especially the UN, have delayed, procrastinated, made weak ineffectual statements and have accepted the Sri Lanka Government’s reports as ‘fact’. Of particular concern is the silence of Sri Lanka Civil Society...
Sri Lanka guilty of ‘...
Aid workers accused Sri Lanka yesterday of causing an avoidable humanitarian disaster as the country’s Government appealed for international help in handling 100,000 civilians who have fled the conflict with the Tamil Tigers since Monday.
The Government had maintained for weeks that there were fewer than 50,000 civilians in the area where the army has pinned down the last of the Tigers.
It insisted...
Situation report 5th May from Save ZoneSituation report 2nd May from Save Zone
Situation report 27th April from Save Zone
E-Mail message from doctor 24.04.2009
Civilian casualties April 2009
Civilian casualties March 2009
Civilian casualties February 2009
Civilian casualties January 2009
Civilian casualties December 2008
Civilian casualties November 2008
Government Agent report from Save Zone
Doctors report from Save Zone
CBO report from Save Zone
On the spot report march 11.2009
On the spot report march 04.2009
On the spot report February 2009
Hospital Attacks
On the spot report January 2009